"Halloween" in 1978 and is still considered an exemplary classic of scary cinema, despite the enviable restraint in demonstrating scenes of violence. Some filmmakers call the 1978 film the ancestor of the slasher genre, which popularized the genre and approved it as one of the main signs of the 1980s film industry. The director who debuted with the horror “House of a Thousand Corpses”, heavy metal icon Rob Zombie took up the lack of chilling bloody scenes. He created a cross between the prequel and the remake of the original picture - the film "Halloween 2007". The picture received contradictory reviews, its IMDb rating: 6.10.
Plot
The film "Halloween 2007", the actors and roles of which are harmoniously matched to each other, sheds light on the childhood and adolescence of Michael Myers. The director and co-author of the script Rob Zombie prefers a socio-psychological, somewhat down-to-earth interpretation of the motives of the behavior of young Michael, who grew up not in the most prosperous family.
The boy’s mother is a stripper well-known in the provincial town, and his stepfather is a cruel, degrading alcoholic. At school, classmates mocked the boy, and disgrace was also happening at home. Therefore, the future maniac, having trained on pets, on the night before Halloween, cracked down on his dishonorable family. After which he was placed in a psychiatric clinic, where the next years, Dr. Loomis tried unsuccessfully to examine him. Once, again on the eve of All Saints Day, Michael manages to break free.
From this moment, a real remake of the original horror begins, generously seasoned with a snappy trash drowning in an abundance of blood.
Another reincarnation
Since Carpenter’s project had a lot of sequels, caring domestic adapters in the Russian box office added the year of release to the original name “Halloween” so that the audience would not get confused. However, the slasher directed by Rob Zombie is different from other remakes, representing the author's reinterpretation of the film by John Carpenter.
In the horror "Halloween 2007" actors acting as positive characters are almost invisible. Particular attention is paid to the personality of Michael Myers, whose role was played immediately by two actors Tyler Mayne - at 27 years old and Deg Furch at 10 years old. The impact on the viewer of the new Michael Myers turned out to be strong and deep, perhaps Rob Zombie created the most terrible image of a psycho-killer in the history of slashers.
Performers of the role of a maniac
The film "Halloween 2007" reveals the image of Michael Myers in full. Everything that happens in the picture is focused on it. The main burden fell on the shoulders of the performer of the role of the already matured killer actor Tyler Mayne. Canadian television and film actor is a professional wrestler, is fond of oriental martial arts. He is known to a wide audience for his roles as Sabretooth in X-Men and Ajax in Troy.
Ten-year-old Michael was played by Daig Firk, who has acted in films since 2004. Against the background of rather restrained assessments of film critics of the Halloween 2007 film, the actors, including Daig, received rather favorable reviews. One of the correspondents of the Chicago Tribune said that the maniac-child Fork is not inferior in his innocent-demonic game to the great horror antagonists over the past quarter century. After the release of the film, Daig Firk starred in episodic roles in Hancock and Dead On Demand. The actor intended to return to the role of Myers in the film "Halloween 2", but did not fit in age.
Actresses
Diverse actors were involved in the production of the slasher “Halloween 2007”, they created an impressive gallery of bright characters.
The wife of director Sheri Moon Zombie brilliantly embodied on the screen the role of mother-stripper Michael. Her first significant film work is considered to be “Expelled by the Devil”. After Sheri appeared in the horror "Halloween 2007" and "Halloween 2". Her character became so popular that collectible toy figures of her heroine were released. Also, the actress starred in the movie "House of 1000 corpses", "Nightmare at home in the hills."
At the request of fans, actress Danielle Harris was approved for the role of 17-year-old Annie Brackett, despite the significant difference in age. Harris was given the title “Queen of the Scream” after filming in the famous horror films, primarily in 4 parts of “Halloween”.
Actress Scout Taylor-Compton, who played the role of Laurie Strode, is familiar to the viewer in vivid images in American Crime and Nights Without Sleep. However, the movie "Halloween 2007" brought her wide fame. The actors who starred in the remake, in 2009, with pleasure accepted the offer of Zombies to take part in its continuation - the slasher "Halloween 2", Scout was among them.
Actors
Not the last place in the hierarchy of the heroes of the picture is the image of Dr. Loomis. The performer of the role, the English actor Malcolm MacDowell, this time played the role of a positive character, although for his more than forty-year film career he received mostly sharply negative, sometimes cruel roles. For example, in A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick or in Caligula by Tinto Brass.
Some actors in the movie "Halloween 2007" did not have time to demonstrate the full range of their acting skills, as their characters were quickly killed. An interesting fate befell the beloved actor Rodriguez and Tarantino Danny Treio. The character of the American actor of Mexican descent was killed using a TV. Danny is known as the performer of many negative roles in the films "From Dusk Till Dawn 1, 2, 3", "Machete", "Predators".